Laney1566 Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 I say we boycott acoustics and all play electrics to boost the load on the power grid!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoConMan Posted October 5, 2009 Author Share Posted October 5, 2009 Congress Drops Requirement That Blue-Ribbon Panel Consider Yucca Mountain October 2, 2009 From The Energy Daily - House and Senate appropriators have ordered the planned blue-ribbon panel on nuclear waste to consider “all alternatives” for disposal strategies — dropping earlier House language that sought to force the panel to look at the Yucca Mountain repository, which the president and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have vowed to kill. The adoption of the vague “all alternatives” language appears to give the administration substantial leeway not to have the expert panel consider Yucca Mountain, the proposed underground repository in Nevada. Further, a spokesman for Reid said the language crafted by House and Senate meant that the blue-ribbon panel was to look at all alternatives to Yucca Mountain. The House version of the spending bill would have denied the administration’s blue-ribbon panel funding unless it explicitly considered the Yucca Mountain repository alongside any other alternatives for managing the nation’s nuclear waste and spent fuel. House appropriators said it would be scientifically unjustified to exclude Yucca from the review, especially considering the tens of billions of dollars that the government has already spent on studying the site. The Senate energy spending bill provided no directives as to what the panel should or should not consider. Blue ribbon my ***..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoConMan Posted October 5, 2009 Author Share Posted October 5, 2009 At least some of the people actually in the business still get it... FERC, Interior Continue Plans For Renewables Despite Lack Of Legislation October 2, 2009 From ClimateWire Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairman Jon Wellinghoff and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said they believed the federal government could develop a strategy for promoting renewables by expanding the grid in the absence of the approval of such legislation by Congress. The strategy included rapid approval of transmission rights-of-way and permits, as well as new transmission corridors using public and tribal lands. Salazar said a Cabinet-level committee that included Wellinghoff was working on policy proposals for line-siting, "cost allocation and coordination of permitting for proposed projects." Anbaric Holding CEO Edward Krapels said progress on potential transmission projects in the West was expected to move rapidly enough to allow them to receive stimulus funds, but projects in the East will be slowed down by political and regulatory obstacles. Wellinghoff praised the Senate's climate change bill as being "on the right path, generally," but criticized an amendment by Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. Wellinghoff said the amendment could "tie us up in courts forever" by requiring FERC to prove economic and reliability benefits for a region funding a major transmission project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 So... am I correct in reading that Yucca is to be shut-down? That instead of storing the spent fuel in a repository with a very limited route of access (probably one 20 foot gate) we are storing spent fuel outside... in the weather.... with 180 degree access that has to be patrolled, lest someone sneak in and take it? Let alone the potential exposure to air and water we breath and drink. Am I reading that right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoConMan Posted October 5, 2009 Author Share Posted October 5, 2009 Pretty much. It ain't going nowhere welded up inside the casks, but it is somewhat vulnerable to a hard strike. Maybe go bowling in the storage yard with a small airplane.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortcon Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 That's some dark **** Neo... but possibly worth worrying about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoConMan Posted October 5, 2009 Author Share Posted October 5, 2009 Oh, and never forget you're PAYING for all this. :-/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortcon Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Good, I was worried I wasn't contributing somehow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Pretty much. It ain't going nowhere welded up inside the casks' date=' but it is somewhat vulnerable to a hard strike. Maybe go bowling in the storage yard with a small airplane....[/quote'] But if'n one of the casks turns up missin'... :- I'm just sayin'. They got a Lojack in them? Is it your job to count them every morning, noon and night? You carryin' heat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoConMan Posted October 5, 2009 Author Share Posted October 5, 2009 Missing? Well, they're fenced off and electronically monitored for temp. Unhook the wires and see people come running. Lotsa well-armed security here, quasi-military private force. Getting inside the fence from other than the sky would be tough. And they weigh over 100,000 pounds apiece so it's not like you can just roll it like a pickle barrel.... :-/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Missing?Well' date=' they're fenced off and electronically monitored for temp. Unhook the wires and see people come running. Lotsa well-armed security here, quasi-military private force. Getting inside the fence from other than the sky would be tough. And they weigh over 100,000 pounds apiece so it's not like you can just roll it like a pickle barrel.... =D>/ [/quote'] Well that's good to know. By small plane do you mean a Cessna? Could that move a 100K lb box? Maybe what they were gettin' at was a promise to house the now homeless casks in an airplane proof building. Now that would be a promise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingarmadillo Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Probably not a small one. The idea would be to get the casks to leak radioactive material and you'd have a Chernobyl situation. And power plant material (fuel) can't go bang like a nuke weapon, it can just get hot. BTW, there is a new nuke fuel plant being constructed in New Mexico: http://www.urenco.com/News/149/Building-and-Operating-the-National-Enrichment-Facility.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoConMan Posted October 5, 2009 Author Share Posted October 5, 2009 Yeah, it would just cause BIG problems. The public panic would probably injure more people.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortcon Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 I'm not a Nuclear Scientist (surprise surprise), what would the short/long-term effects of a catastrophic leak be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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